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(CIA.) Kim Il-Sung taught his people that the US was the ultimate threat to its social system, that the US was the ultimate threat to his political, economic, and military policies surrounding his objective for unification of Korea under his control. (CIA.)

Present day ruler, Kim Jong Un is known for his cruel ways of ruling and his nuclear power. North Korea has no religion, as it is discouraged. Because there is no religion, most citizens get into fights about their ideas of religion. Other people are too afraid to talk about their religion and even pass it on to their children because of what Kim Jong Un might do. Kim is known for executing people to get his way. Since he came to power, he has ordered at least three hundred and forty people to death. One hundred and forty of these people were apart of his government. Due to the executions, his people fear him. On a different topic, North Korea is the 119th largest trading economy in the world, exporting 2.83 billion dollars and importing 3.47 billion dollars. North Korea's largest trading partner is China, gaining food and energy. Other trading partners include, Pakistan, Asia, Russia, etc. China was also the one who gave North Korea nuclear weapons. North Korea was short on nuclear weapons and Kim decided it was time to advance the weaponry. As of 2014, the North Korean Army has 950,000

President Truman and President Eisenhower had a crucial impact on America and the fate of Korea during the Korean War. The Korean War started on June 25, 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ended on July 27, 1953, when the armistice was signed. It was fought between North Korea, who were under the Soviet Union influence of communism, and South Korea, who were under American influence of democracy. Both sides wanted to be the supreme leader of Korea. President Truman’s decision to join the Korean War had a huge cost on America and was the first real decision for the United Nations (UN). Because of how President Eisenhower decided to end the war, with an armistice, North and South Korea are still separated and without resolving the conflict. The impact of the war and of not having

DPRK was liberated from Japanese colonial rule by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. When Kim IL Sung, born April 15, 1912, returned to North Korea from the Soviet Union where he and his guerrillas had been based from 1941-45, the Soviet occupation forces in the northern part of the country presented him to the North Korean people as a hero. In mid-1993, Kim IL Sung was general secretary of North Korea's ruling party and president of the state. North Korea is a classic example of the "rule of man." Which basically means controlling everyone under one rule. Overall, political management is highly personalized and is based on loyalty to Kim IL Sung and the Korean Workers' Party. The cult of personality and the strong influence of former anti-Japanese partisan veterans and military leaders are unique features of North Korean

In the northern part of the Korean peninsula lies North Korea. After Japan ended its rule over Korea, it is soon divided between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Korean War lasted for three years and remained divided. The "eternal president", Kim Il Sung, ruled from 1912 to 1994. He wanted North Korea to be self-sufficient and independent socially and economically. Sung created reforms to

Kim was unable to speak out under communism- where all information is regarded as sensitive. Consequently, when Kim was 29 years old she defected to the West leaking her story from her unknown viewpoint. Until then, her true thoughts and feelings could only have been assumed.

Namely, President Roosevelt suggested a trusteeship in Korea whereby four countries (including China) would help Korea to manage its internal affairs for twenty to thirty years. Stalin accepted this proposal without going any further into the subject (A.A.Gromyko, 1979, pp. 140-142). As a later result, the US-USSR agreement on respective spheres of influence in Korea divided Korea by means of the 38th parallel where the northern part ended up under the Soviet 's control while the Americans controlled the South (Lowe, 1986, p. 19). This demarcation very much shaped the future of Korea actually dividing the world and significantly contributing to the development of the painful conflict between the Southern and the Northern part of one country also known as the Korean War.

Kim Jong Un: is the third and youngest son of Kim Jong-il. He is the supreme leader of North Korea and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. He has limited experience in military and political because he was in Europe during North Korea's famine of the 1990s. He has several positions in the North Korea such as chairman of

Kim Il-sung had ultimate control over his people as he had the military to enforce his laws. If a citizen dared to speak up against the government, he and his family would be thrown into horrendous prisons for the next three generations. What makes North Korea different than Rwanda and Haiti is that poverty there was a normal part of life. Kim Il-sung cut off communication with the outside world. He controlled television and radio services to ensure that his people were ignorant that their lives were much worse than the rest of the world. Similar to Haiti, North Koreans were faced with hunger and a lack of basic necessities to live comfortably. A rigid system in North Korea made it impossible for families of lower class to improve their status because of tainted family history. Unlike Haiti’s vacillating government, North Korea was dominated by totalitarianism. North Koreans were taught to believe that they lived in the best place on earth, when in reality, they lived in poverty and domination. Their perception of their lives was caused by the culture that Kim Il-sung created. He instilled loyalty using media, force, and religious practices. This is similar to Rwanda because the Hutus and Tutsis were also taught to believe in the ethnic divisions hat separated them through school systems, religion, and

In the northern regions of Korea post World War II, the majority of the politicians and people were supporters of communism and of course the Soviet Union being the most dominant communist nation in the world, supported the ideals of the north. The southern regions however were completely anti-communism and thus supported by the United States (Robinson p 74). The majority of the problem stemmed from outside of the country itself with Russia declaring war on Japan while using Korea as the battlefield. However, this internal conflict was actually the fuel to the fire originally because it gave Russia and Japan something to fight over; the region that they were fighting for happened to share the same politic views. Until the end of World War II, Japan occupied the entire Korean peninsula. Immediately after the war was over, Russia declared war on a

Kim Jong UnAlthough Kim Jong Un has no confirmed birthdate, it is known he is the third and youngest son of Korean military leader Kim Jong-Il, who had ruled since 1994. His father saw a lot of himself in his son, leading to Jong Il passing his leadership on to him once he died. He passed away in 2011 and that’s when Jung Un came to power. Under his power, North Korea started weapon testing programs. In February 2012, he started testing nuclear testing on long range missile launching, going along with his weapon testing. In April, 2012 North Korea launched a satellite that failed not too long after taking off, but in December of the same year, the government launched a long-range rocket that put the satellite in order. February of the next

After World War II, the Korean territory was free to be taken over. Russia took the Northern territory and the United States took the Southern territory. Both superpowers would influence both territories into their own image. When the two countries pulled out in 1947, Korea was left with two regimes with very different ideologies. North under the influence of communism while South under democratic direction. In just a couple of years, tensions rose with both sides wanting to overpower each other. Threats became more serious, spies multiplied in number, and violence between the regions had increased along the 38th parallel, the boundary between North and South Korea. Soon one side would draw first blood and would spark a war.

He is known as the former supreme leader of North Korea. He was a dictator and revoked all rights to his people just like his father ruled and how his son rules today. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea was brainwashed for years giving North Korea's people a habit to hate the United States and many other countries. Kim Jong-Il is criticized for “crimes against humanity” by prolonging the famine in the 1990's. He controlled the people completely by giving them no freedoms such as no freedom of press or religion, political choices or education. There has also been accounts of North Korea producing atomic missiles that could potentially harm other civilizations. Hence, because of Kim Jong-Il's negative leadership and legacy it greatly impacted world

The man, the legend, the one and only, supreme leader, Kim Jong Un. Standing at a height of 5’9, and 210 pounds, he is one of the world’s youngest supreme leaders, and in under 4 years, has managed to continue his own father’s legacy. Kim Jong Un has managed to successfully take complete control of North Korea just like his past family members who have been in power. At age 32 the supreme leader happens to own the longest list of honorifics anywhere, in which every single one of them is unearned, and is also most likely the last hereditary male in power. Kim is the third and youngest son of his father, and the second-born son of Kim II’s second mistress, Ko Young Hee. His grandfather, Kim Il Sung, ruled for 46 years, with Kim Jong Il, his son, taking over after his death in 1994. Kim Jong Un took power after his father's death in 2011, in which he was favored for by his father. Kim Jong Un has two older brothers, named Kim Jong-Chul and Kim Jong-Nam, who should’ve been next in line, but weren’t when their father decided to not make either one supreme leader because they were too “feminine in character”, while Jong-un was "exactly like his father". Around the same time he took power, he got married, in an arranged marriage, to a woman named, Ri Sol Ju, who is a former cheerleader and singer. Mrs. Kim is seen a lot with her husband in public. (unlike his

Under Yi Sŏng-Gye’s son King Sejong, considered Korea’s greatest ruler, inventions like the rain gauge, the use of a movable type, and the birth of Korean alphabet called Hangeul, still in use today, surfaced. (Piddock, 27-28) They ruled the entire peninsula for 500 years. Then Korea was annexed by neighbors Japan in 1910. Korea continued to be under Japan until 1945 when it was liberated at the end of World War II. (“North Korea”, Culturegrams) “With the defeat of Japan in 1945, the Allies agreed to divide the Korean Peninsula between the Soviet Union and the United States at the thirty-eighth parallel as a temporary measure.” (Piddock, 30) The Soviet Union received the Northern part of Korea, and the United States the South. “.. Soviet forces closed off northern Korea at the thirty-eighth parallel and placed Korean communists in power there.” Evidently, North Korea was bound to turn communist.